Being Light in our Brokenness

Jesus told us to let our light shine — but He never explained how the light actually gets out. The Apostle Paul did: we carry this treasure in jars of clay, and it's through the cracks that the light escapes. The breaking isn't the thing that ruins us. It's the very thing that lets the light out.

God wove this pattern into creation itself. Myrrh — the fragrant resin of the anointing oil, the gift the Magi laid before the infant Christ — doesn't form in times of ease. It's born from wounding, and its fragrance stays locked away until the hardened resin is crushed. This devotional follows that thread from a wounded desert tree all the way to the cross, and to a truth that can change how you carry your own pain: your suffering may not be disqualifying you from ministry. It may be anointing you for it. Your greatest ministry may flow from your deepest wounds.